Evening, apologies for the hit and miss nature of this week, a combination of a lot of stuff. For all those people waiting for the video version of the latest Horizon Scan to drop, not going to happen I’m afraid. Basically there was an issue with the sound not matching the video and I sent it back to the tech guys on the platform we use so that could fix it. They did not fix it and in fact made it worse somehow because not only couldn’t they fix it, they’ve done something to the files that means I can’t either. So sound only for episode 66.
We now have two high profile situations where someone either doing their job or trying to do the right thing has been prosecuted for it. George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose and Derrick Cheven is in prison for it to this day. He’s never going to get out early because that will trigger more BLM rioting. It seems the same was planned for Daniel Penny, but it turns out the guy he choked out still had a pulse when the emergency services arrived. Hopefully the case gets thrown out and Penny walks away appropriately compensated. As we know now, the punishment is the process. These people want you at the mercy of others, too scared to protect yourself or those around you. There’s a name for it, two connected words, one begins with A and the other with T.
If you’ve been watching Horizon Scan for a while then this won’t surprise you at all. As I’ve said many times, this technology is coming whether you like it or not, the same with cash being completely minimised. Like any tool, in the right hands this will make much of your life far easier, the problem is whose hands it’s in. Based on the treatment we’ve seen of those who are critical of the current government, do you really want them to have anything to do with your ability to access services and go about your private life freely? Would they - assuming the 100 far right rights were actually real - be able to resist putting a measure in place to minimise the ability of those people to travel? Of course not, that’s irresistible and highly practical.